Food & neighborhoods
Greektown
Restaurants, historic facades, and evening city life around Monroe Street.
DETROIT / Places to explore / ¼
Places. A thousand stories.
Explore museums, parks, stages, and distinctive neighborhoods across Detroit and nearby cities. Each place comes with its own story and related events.
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Architecture & icons
People Mover – Greektown station
The station of Greektown and the Hollywood Casino, crowned by Stephen Antonakos’s neon; with half a million riders, the busiest in 2014.
Famous people's places / Detroit – Greektown
Second Baptist Church
Michigan's oldest Black congregation, founded in 1836, a key Underground Railroad station and the church where Ralph Bunche was baptized.
Famous people's places / Detroit – Downtown
Closed – archive entryTemple Theatre
Vaudeville house on Monroe Street opened in 1901 as part of the Wonderland entertainment complex, Harry Houdini's most frequent Detroit stage, later demolished for downtown redevelopment.
Famous people's places / Monroe
Woodland Cemetery (Monroe)
One of Michigan's oldest public cemeteries, established in 1810 in Monroe, where painter Robert S. Duncanson was buried in 1872.
Famous people's places / Detroit – Black Bottom
Closed – archive entryDodge Brothers Plant (Hastings Street and Monroe Avenue)
The Dodge brothers' early machine-shop plant near downtown Detroit, where they built engines and transmissions for Olds and Ford before moving to Hamtramck in 1910.
An independently written bilingual guide. This collection is not an attendance-based ranking.
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